The sunrise of the morning after the sunset on the Photo Gallery page, taken from a spot about 250 feet away from where I took the sunset photo Cape Hatteras is very long, but so narrow that if you stand on the ridge in the middle, you can see the sound (?) to the West and the ocean to the East. You can imagine the Sun falling below the water's horizon on one side of you and travelling in a large arc beneath the earth to appear over the water to the other side.